3rd BIMP-EAGA transport cluster meeting opens in Palawan

• Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=3&rid=801987
• Wednesday, September 9, 2015

By Celeste Anna R. Formoso [(PNA), LAP/CARF/EBP]

PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Sept. 9 (PNA) -- The Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines-East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) third transport cluster meeting opened here Wednesday.

The Provincial Information Office (PIO) said initially that the meeting will center on issues, concerns and accomplishments of the transport cluster, particularly those on air, sea, and land transport linkages.

The information office said representatives from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will stress on the Think Sub-Regional, Link National to respond to the challenges that the member countries will face that have connection to the transportation sector and to achieve the goal of full connectivity that will be the way to speed up exchanges in commerce and trade.

The meeting is attended by more than a hundred delegates from the four member-countries: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, as well as representatives from the ADB and the BIMP-EAGA Business Council.

After the meeting, the PIO said over 40 members of the Palawan BIM-EAGA Business Council will embark on a trade mission on September 14 to 19.

Jose Steward Sapalo, member of the Palawan BIMP-EAGA Business Council Board of Directors, said the trade mission was the product of a three-day Training on Trade Faciliation on EAGA Region last August 26-28 that has something to do with the import/export industry in the Philippines and Malaysia.

Included in the itinerary are business matching, Malaysia Day Holiday, and site visits in Sandakan, Kudat and Tawau.

These are sites of commercial industries in Malaysia, where potential business partners can come from.